Figure 1: A quick demographic study of veterans across the United States and New York.
I was curious to know what the veteran population was like in the United States, so I went onto the Department of Veterans Affairs website and found a bunch of spreadsheets and pivot tables on veteran population.
Here is a breakdown of veteran popuulation density across the US in 2015. We can see that most veterans live in California, Texas, and Florida.Below is a searchable data table of veteran population in 2015 by state:
New York Veteran Population Density in 2015
Now that we have an idea of the veteran population in the US, lets look more closely at a particular state to see if we can draw any insights on this dataset. The above map shows a raw count of veterans in New York. Suffolk county and Erie county have the most veterans. However, this map can be a little misleading. There are a lot of veterans living in these counties but we do not know anything about the overall population density in each county. Let’s take some census data and build out veteran proportion in each country.